Proper noun
Mitanni
(historical) Hurrian kingdom in northern Mesopotamia from circa 1500 B.C.E., at the height of its power, during the 14th century BC, encompassing what is today southeastern Turkey, northern Syria and northern Iraq.
A few words from another Indo-Aryan language (see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni ) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and Syria and the Hittite kingdom in Anatolia. Source: Internet
Architecture main Assyrian architecture, like that of Babylonia, was influenced by Sumero-Akkadian styles (and to some degree Mitanni), but early on developed its own distinctive style. Source: Internet
Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. Source: Internet
Following this, it found itself under short periods of Babylonian and Mitanni Hurrian rule in the 18th and 15th centuries BC respectively. Source: Internet
An interesing point to note: names of politis or places were given to people or polities by other peoples, e.g., Sumer, Mitanni, Canaan, P-e-l-e-s-e-t and Israel. Source: Internet
Politics and economics were dominated by the kingdom of Mitanni, with its center on the Habur plains. Source: Internet